tomato juice til about 4" from the top. One largish bottle of worchestershire, 1/4 bottle of lime juice, level water dipper of horseradish, 1/2 handful of pepper, 1/4 handful of celery salt, about 1/4 small bottle of tobasco, stir and taste and add horseradish to it til it was "right" -- very subjective. Vodka was added drink by drink which ended up being dumb because our bartenders got drunk and overpoured like crazy. We ended up just adding vodka to the mix at the end

Added the veggies, more horseradish and a-1 as garnishes at the end of the line.

Were I to make just one, it would be: 2 shots vodka in pint glass, ice to the top. 4 tblespns worchestershire, capful of lime juice, 1 tblepsn horseradish, 2 tblespns A-1, four good shakes of pepper, 2 good shakes celery salt, 2-3 good shakes of tobasco, fill w/ tomato juice and celery to stir. Pickled veggies and maybe an olive or two. Mess with the ingredients til it pleases you (I like more a-1)

DesertRat wrote:lol, well we made 'em in 5 gallon buckets....that recipe was:

tomato juice til about 4" from the top. One largish bottle of worchestershire, 1/4 bottle of lime juice, level water dipper of horseradish, 1/2 handful of pepper, 1/4 handful of celery salt, about 1/4 small bottle of tobasco, stir and taste and add horseradish to it til it was "right" -- very subjective. Vodka was added drink by drink which ended up being dumb because our bartenders got drunk and overpoured like crazy. We ended up just adding vodka to the mix at the end

Added the veggies, more horseradish and a-1 as garnishes at the end of the line.

Were I to make just one, it would be: 2 shots vodka in pint glass, ice to the top. 4 tblespns worchestershire, capful of lime juice, 1 tblepsn horseradish, 2 tblespns A-1, four good shakes of pepper, 2 good shakes celery salt, 2-3 good shakes of tobasco, fill w/ tomato juice and celery to stir. Pickled veggies and maybe an olive or two. Mess with the ingredients til it pleases you (I like more a-1)

That's all standard ingredients - though the lime is often left out. Little dash of pickle juice never hurt anybody. And while bacon vodka is gross on it's own, it's great in a bloody mary. My preferred garnishes are boiled shrimp and pickled okra.

e: we added more horseradish and a-1 at the end of the serving line for those who wanted more kick

I dont drink the bloody marys and not sure if it matters...

but most of the red liquid stuff for the bloody marys was V8 or an equiv of it (at least in 2009) that might give dif results than just tomato juice, and there were a lot of mixed hot sauces (at least in 2009) ...id say the majority was Franks redhot sauce.

When folks contribute, you gets what you gets. We had combos of everything from snappy tom to generic juice. We lined up each bucket in line with each ingredient and just....guessed. Many types of hot sauce, from cholula to tapatio to tobasco.

I would try the Introduce Yourself thing - post something about yourself... Don't be so hasty to include an URL in your very first post (that caught my eye as a moderator, kinda like trying to sneak a pistol thru airport security!!), tho depression DOES run in my other half's exes family, as well as my stepmoms.

You are from??? I am going to take a huge wild guess... PI? Or where? (I'm guessing from elsewhere than the US mainland!) If you really want to be part of this ting, tell us something about yourself, how you got turned on to this site, etc.